Ari Mackey: FBI and Interpol Reportedly Involved As Influencer Flees After Police Allegations
- Media personality Blakk Rasta has revived the Ari Mackey controversy, dropping fresh claims on his December 11, 2025, edition of The Blakk Pot
- He alleged that Ghanaian authorities had involved the FBI and Interpol after the US influencer reportedly refused to cooperate with local police
- Blakk Rasta further claimed that Arianna Mackey fled to Nigeria after leaving Ghana, raising questions about her movements and intentions
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Controversial Ghanaian media personality, Blakk Rasta, has stirred reactions after sharing new details about the case involving American influencer Arianna Naomi Mackey.
Source: TikTok
The American, known on TikTok as Ari Mackey, sparked heated debate on social media when she announced to her over 34,000 followers that she was kidnapped and robbed by police officers in Ghana.
In the December 7 video, she claimed that she, a friend and the Uber they ordered ran into a Ghana Police checkpoint on the night of December 6.
Ari Mackey alleged that the patrol officers who stopped them had masks on and had covered the licence plates of their vehicle.
She also claimed that they had no name tags on to identify them.
Mackey stated that the group kidnapped them once they realised she was American and stole every valuable item from her.
"They checked our bags and our bodies, and when they looked in my bag and found I had cash, they decided I needed to get in the car. They told me to get in the car. I tried to ask why and if there was anything else we could do to handle this, but they said no. They got mad every time I tried to ask a question," she had claimed.
Mackey said the officers took her cash, phones, and cameras, and forced her to withdraw more cash from an ATM to give to them before they let them go.
After her video went viral, the influencer reportedly left the country and refused to cooperate with investigators, according to a statement from the Ghana Police Service.
Below is a Facebook post with the statement shared by the Ghana Police in response to the American.
Blakk Rasta provides update on Ari Mackey
Speaking on his show, The Blakk Pot on December 11, 2025, Blakk Rasta shared new updates on the Ari Mackey case.
He claimed that following her refusal to provide any credible information to investigators to aid in their inquiry, Ghanaian authorities had requested the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Interpol to aid in locating Mackey.
Blakk Rasta also asserted that she had ties to Nigeria and had gone to the West African country after leaving Ghana, raising questions about the possible motives for her claims against the police.
The media personality speculated that he believed the incident was a ploy to destroy Ghana’s world-famous Detty December.
The TikTok video of Blakk Rasta speaking about Ari Mackey is below.
Source: TikTok
Ari Mackey addresses viral backlash
Previously, YEN.com.gh reported that American content creator Ari Mackey addressed the viral backlash that followed her viral video in which she claimed she was robbed by police officers in Ghana.
In an email sent to Clement Asamoah Yeboah of Gossips24 TV, she refuted claims that she had blocked investigators and stated that she had already provided all the details they had requested of her.
Proofreading by Bruce Douglas, copy editor at YEN.com.gh.
Source: YEN.com.gh
